Re: botched diplomacy (a rant)

From: Damien Sullivan (phoenix@ugcs.caltech.edu)
Date: Sun Dec 01 2002 - 20:58:01 MST


On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 01:47:46AM -0500, Spudboy100@aol.com wrote:

> Oh hell! I never watch CNN anymore anyway, and you can have your CBC stuff.
> I will be watching Fox News, probably not MSNBC, though CNBC is rather tasty,
> for this actinide-based Jihadi Flambe' you are so concerned with. :-) Enjoy!

http://www.pkarchive.org/column/112902.html

'The political agenda of Fox News, to take the most important example, is
hardly obscure. Roger Ailes, the network's chairman, has been advising the
Bush administration. Fox's Brit Hume even claimed credit for the midterm
election. "It was because of our coverage that it happened," he told Don Imus.
"People watch us and take their electoral cues from us. No one should doubt
the influence of Fox News in these matters." (This remark may have been tongue
in cheek, but imagine the reaction if the Democrats had won and Dan Rather,
even jokingly, had later claimed credit.)'

-xx- Damien X-)



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